‘You have a right to defend yourself’: 7-Eleven clerk fired after shooting attacker
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — Stephanie Dilyard, a former 7-Eleven clerk, faced a terrifying ordeal when a man attempted to strangle her after she refused to accept a counterfeit $100 bill for purchases.
The incident occurred just before midnight on Thursday.
Dilyard recounted, “He threatened me, and said he was gonna slice my head off, and that’s when I tried to call the police. He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space, and that’s when I pulled out my gun and I shot him.”
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The suspect, identified as 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson, fled to MacArthur Blvd. and Northwest 34th St. and called 911.
Police confirmed that Dilyard is protected under Oklahoma’s self-defense law.
However, she was terminated by 7-Eleven on Monday for using her own gun. “They said that they were going to separate from employment because of a violation of policy,” Dilyard said.
Dilyard, who had been working alone from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. for over two years, still bore a scratch on her neck and burns on her finger from firing the pistol.
Reflecting on the incident, she stated, “This was a situation where I felt like I was put into a corner between choosing between my job, and my life, and I’m always going to choose my life because there’s people that depend on me. Just, I’m going, I’m going home, you know. I need to be here for my kids.”
Thompson was arrested at the hospital and charged with assault and battery, threatening acts of violence, attempting to pass a fake bill, and a felony warrant for violating parole.
Dilyard hopes her experience serves as a wake-up call to prevent other clerks, especially women, from being harmed. “If I’ve known that there’s a potential that somebody is for real on taking my life away that I will do whatever it takes, and I hope that women see that, and they’ll do the same thing. You have a right to defend yourself,” she said.
Attempts to reach 7-Eleven for a statement on Dilyard’s firing and any changes to employee policy were unsuccessful.
Dilyard started a GoFundMe to help raise money to support her family while she recovers and looks for another job.
Blind Shopper Was Getting Ripped Off After Paying With A $100 Bill, So He Used The ‘Be My Eyes’ App To Call Another Customer For Help
by Matthew Gilligan
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This is about as low as you can get, folks…
A woman named Airica took to TikTok to tell viewers about something truly shocking: she had to intervene after a grocery store worker tried to steal money from a blind man who paid for his items with a $100 bill.
Airica has an app called Be My Eyes on her phone that connects her with blind people who may need help, and it’s a good thing she was around to help out in this situation.
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In the video’s text overlay, Airica wrote, “Sometimes I’m too anxious to answer a Be My Eyes call. Today I wasn’t.”
She said she got a call from the Be My Eyes app while she was gardening and she answered it. A man on the other line said he thought he paid for his items at a grocery store with a $100 bill, but the cashier said it was a smaller bill.
Airica said, “The blind man apologizes to the cashier and says, ‘I’m so sorry if I’m wrong, but I’m on a fixed income and I have to be sure that I paid you with the correct, bill.’ He tells me that he had a $100 bill in his wallet. And could I please go through the bills with him?”
She continued, “And this man has his wallet set up meticulously, and I could just tell he made a mistake. Because we went through every bill and there’s no $100 bill in his wallet. So I ask him are you sure that you didn’t spend that $100 bill. There’s a $50 in there. So maybe, did you spend that $100 and get change? And he says, ‘No I didn’t. I just got that $100 bill yesterday, and I haven’t been anywhere with it.’ I said, well, there’s no $100 bill in your wallet. So, I think you should probably go to the front desk and ask to speak to a manager.”
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Airica continued, “This man was so nervous and I said honey, there’s no $100 bill in there. You only have $73 in there. And, so he goes to the front desk and he waits forever. We’re on the phone, he waits forever. Finally, a manager comes over.”
The manager said that he’d be able to check the cashier’s drawer at the end of the day to see if everything added up.
Airica stepped in and demanded to talk to the store manager. She told him he needed to check out the cashier’s drawer immediately.
She said, “I’m telling y’all, I was shaking, I was so mad. I wanted to ask him where he lives so I could just come up there. Imagine if he’s just right down the road at my Kroger. It didn’t look like my Kroger.”
Airica said that the manager counted the cash in the drawer…and it was $91 over.
The blind man told Airica that he bought $8 worth of items and paid with a $100 bill, so it all added up.
‘Never Heard Of This Law Ever’: Texas Woman Pays With $100 Bill At Chick-Fil-A. Then A Worker Runs It Through His Beep Meter
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by Braden BjellaDecember 5, 2025 5:00 am
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Have you ever seen a counterfeit dollar bill before?
Even if you think you haven’t, there’s a strong chance you may have accidentally had one in your possession. In 2011, the United States Secret Service confiscated over $81 million in fraudulent currency. There’s also a significant amount of this currency that doesn’t get caught—meaning that fake bills, while rare, do occasionally get traded accidentally.
If one discovers a fake bill, there are a few things they need to do. However, this can be pretty awkward, as one TikTok user recently realized.
What Went Wrong With This Chick-Fil-A Purchase?
In a video with over 27,000 views, TikTok user Bunny Garcia (@mrsnevalanded) says she recently visited Chick-fil-A with her family.
Going through the drive-thru, Garcia opted to pay with cash. To do this, she used a $100 bill. This is where the problems began.
“The kid comes back a little while later, and he’s like, ‘Unfortunately, do you have another way to pay? Because that $100 was counterfeit,’” Garcia recalls. “And I’m like, ‘What?’”
The worker then claimed that he ran it through the location’s bill reader twice and that it “didn’t beep.” This apparently indicates that the bill is fake.
“I’m in shock and disbelief,” Garcia states. “I got that money out of the bank yesterday…I’ve been shopping from the same envelope that the bank gave me of hundred-dollar bills all day long—and this kid wants to tell me that the last $100 I grab happens to be the counterfeit one? Like, the odds!”
Things Get Worse
Concerned, Garcia asked for her bill back.
“He’s like, ‘Unfortunately, we can’t give it back,’” Garcia recounts. According to Garcia, the employee said that “when stores encounter counterfeit money, they are obligated—bound by law—to keep it and hang on to it and turn it in. They’re not allowed to give it back to the customer.”
While Garcia says she understands this in theory, she questioned whether the teenagers working at the chain are the best determiners of what is and is not real money.
Garcia then called her husband, who told her to ask for the money back in order to take a photo. The reason, he said, was to inform the bank that they had provided them with fake currency.
“I need to take a picture of the serial number on that $100 for my bank account and my bank records, because I really did just get that from the bank yesterday, OK?” Garcia recalls telling the worker. “Otherwise, I’m calling the police, because you guys took a hundred dollars from me.”
Eventually, a “real manager” came out and explained that the bill was actually genuine. She also said that the other manager with whom she spoke was “new”—despite also being a manager.
“That kid tried to get me to leave the store twice without my money,” Garcia shares. “He wanted me to just leave the line without proof that I gave him $100. There’s gotta be something better.”
Are Companies Really Allowed To Take Bills They Think Are Counterfeit?
Surprisingly, the answer to this question is basically a simple “yes.”
As noted by the Los Angeles Times, businesses are advised to confiscate bills they suspect to be counterfeit and notify both the police and Secret Service about the situation. The person who attempted to pay with the suspected fraudulent bill may get interrogated by the police or Secret Service in order to determine where they acquired the bill.
If the currency is immediately found to be genuine, there’s a chance you’ll get it back. However, if it’s confiscated for further inspection—even if the bill is eventually found to be real—there’s a significant likelihood that you will simply not get the bill back.
If you are able to document that this loss occurred, you can treat it as a “theft loss.” This means it can be written off on your taxes. So long as you did not attempt to knowingly pass a fake bill, you will not be charged for any crime.
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Commenters Can’t Believe It
In the comments section, users were in shock that this was the way such a situation was handled.
“I would want proof that he didn’t walk off with my bill then replace it with a counterfeit one,” declared a user.
“They have to call the police. they cannot just keep it and I don’t think that you are supposed to leave until the police come. passing counterfeit bills is a crime. he was trying to steal your money. good job standing up for yourself,” offered another.
“I wonder how many times they have done this before,” shared a third.
BroBible reached out to Chick-fil-A via email and Garcia via TikTok and Instagram direct message.
